> Now here's the weird part. Packets from Hormel - and ONLY Hormel - were > mangled. They showed up as UDP instead of TCP and then were assigned to > an array of ports - none being 25. The udp ports I think were from my trying to traceroute to your mail exchanger. traceroute uses random high udp ports in the range you mentioned in a private exchange we had. > As soon as I stopped IPTables, the problem went away which means that > there is no problem on the router end. Moreover, how could this possibly > pertain ONLY to the Hormel server. > > Does anyone have any ideas? Does your firewall employ any automated heuristics for updating its iptables rules? Hormel could easily be mistaken for an smtp DOS :-) -- Matthew Galgoci "If you were a woman I'd kiss you right now." System Administrator Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x44155 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
